Among those who argued for its violent overthrow, some called for "one settler, one bullet".
Others have challenged religious knowledge claims in order to overthrow some orthodoxy.
But then every important rapper of recent years, from 50 Cent and Kanye West to Lil Wayne and Gucci Mane, has been presented as an insurgent, ready to overthrow some version of the hip-hop establishment.
But TS Eliot, in an interview, refuses to lay down the law: "I don't think good poetry can be produced in a kind of political attempt to overthrow some existing form," he says.
Since at least the 1940s, the American government has organized and supported insurgent armies for the purpose of overthrowing some presumably hostile foreign regime.
But games can be beautiful, too often, those very same ones that task the player with murder, attacking an enemy base, or overthrowing some despicable despot lurking at the top of a mountainous tower positively brimming with evil.
Some king got overthrown by some other king.
Turning from the religious to the intellectual field, we find historians talking of the march of ideas, the overthrow of some system of philosophy, say, or medicine or astronomy, and the victory of some other system.
